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Repetition 44
Seven Cats Watched Seven Cats Appreciate Democracy
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Happy Birthday Edward Lear
Parrots on the moon celebrate their birthdays in December or so my tutor believed Who was I to argue ? An exhibition to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Edward Lear was held at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford between September 2012 and January 2013.
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Poems from the Midlands
Hales-Owen Chameleon I will not write of your colour as you inspire to fool me Curzon Street Birmingham I requested a taxi from the railway station as there were no trains Leamington Spa I found my aunt alive and well although her cat had drowned
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Bus Station Memoirs
The chairs of jellyfish Shared chocolate In the flower shop By the café They chatted away Without any fuss for many hours As I finished My lunar coffee I watched them swim away In the general direction Of the clover fields It was then That I saw my opportunity To steal their flowers […]
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Sophie Gray
As the summer dust deepens the dry green grasses will turn yellow and I will weave the most complicated of patterns into your wide exposed heart
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Sophia Perovskaia
In meadows under parasols your sisters will not notice the leaf as it falls from a tree and stops history for a moment these areas are beyond invasion
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Lonely Rural Hearts
Station senior but young in spirit wants to meet likeminded either main or branch line I like travel and seeing new places own house river frontage with views to open fields local pub does great ale happy to send photo am I your dream destination ? all replies Box 158
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Lazarus At Dawn
The man who walked In the chalk mist Was promised freedom But he knew What lay behind It’s cold eternity
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Edith
Edith plays cards with sailors on the Rio Negro she is losing but does not care as her collection of butterflies are preparing a kaleidoscope in her cabin she reads frequently and shares her book as she sleeps with unknown readers these are her descendants who will travel and play cards with sailors on the […]
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Paralysis
The golden field harboured a grudge against its transient colour I knew nothing of this infection